Program on the Economics of Aging Meeting

Kathleen M. McGarry and Jonathan S. Skinner, Organizers

March 5, 2021

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 5
12:30 pm
Ran D. Balicer, Ben Gurion University
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Joseph Rashba, Clalit Research Institute
Dan Zeltzer, Tel Aviv University

The Impact of Increased Access to Telemedicine (slides)
1:00 pm
Benjamin Couillard, University of Toronto
Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Kavish Gandhi, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Ellen Meara, Harvard University and NBER
Jonathan S. Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER

Rising Geographic Disparities in U.S. Mortality
1:30 pm
Tal Gross, Boston University and NBER
Timothy Layton, University of Virginia and NBER
Daniel Prinz, World Bank

The Liquidity Sensitivity of Healthcare Consumption: Evidence from Social Security Payments
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm
Mingli Zhong, Urban Institute

Optimal Default Retirement Savings: Theory and Evidence from OregonSaves (slides)
2:45 pm
Lucas Goodman, Department of the Treasury
Anita Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Shanthi Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Abandoned Retirement Savings (slides)
3:15 pm
Mika Akesaka, Kobe University
Peter Eibich, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Chie Hanaoka, Toyo University
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER

Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor: Evidence from Payday Cycles
3:45 pm
Adjourn